Johel Rivera

/ Ho-El Rih-VAIR-ruh /

From Costa Rica, land of sloths, currently living in Vancouver, Canada. With Studies on Sequential arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design after receiving a full tuition scholarship and Digital Animation from Universidad Veritas in San Jose Costa Rica, spiced up with a little bit of architectural background.

Currently working as a 2D and 3D Generalist at Atomic Cartoons, bridging the gap between dimensions and taking care of special hero shots. Also teaching Character Design at Langara College in Vancouver, and a regular helping hand on Ngozi Ukazu’s hit web comic and now published book “OMG Check Please” with some colour flats.

Previously Background Artist and later AFX artist for Carmen SanDiego with DHX Media and a Compositing Artist for MLP the Movie.

Always looking forward to new challenges, chats, and a nice afternoon to sketch away. Fell free to send a line away.